Afghanistan Sun news Afghanistan Sun news Rss feed

  • Russia counting on UN for post-ISAF Afghanistan plans

    Moscow is counting on the UN to develop proposals regarding the international presence in Afghanistan after 2014, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Friday. "We consider it important to start discussing in advance what forms of (international) presence there will be in Afghanistan after 2014; we will count on the proposals that the (UN) secretary general is planning to prepare together ...

  • Nine killed 55 injured in Afghan attacks

    At least nine people were killed and over 55 injured Friday evening when two blasts rocked Afghanistan's Kandahar city, a government official said. "The initial reports said three police officers and six civilians died and over 55 wounded in two explosions which took place in Hyno area of the city Friday evening," reported Xinhua citing a provincial spokesperson. The blasts occurred as ...

  • Two NATO truck drivers killed near Afghan border

    Two NATO drivers were killed when gunmen opened fire on supply trucks passing through northwest Pakistan near the Afghan border, local officials said. The News quoted local official Asmatullah Wazir as saying, that the first driver was killed in the Jamrud area of Khyber by two motorcycle-borne gunmen. In a separate attack, gunmen opened fire on another NATO supply truck in a suburb of ...

  • Minister confident about Afghan resources industry

    Afghan mining minister, Wahidullah Shahrani, says his country has launched an aggressive program to develop a strong base for the governance of the mining ...

  • Obama seeks to cut Afghan war spending by 10 percent

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Friday trimmed his funding request for the war in Afghanistan and other overseas operations by 10 percent, reflecting his plans to wind down the U.S. presence in that ...


clear
Kabul Weather
26°C Clear
Winds: From the South at 4 MPH
Sun
partlycloudy
33° 14°
Mon
partlycloudy
33° 15°
Tue
partlycloudy
32° 14°
Last Updated on May 18, 9:20 AM AFT
Weather sourced from Weather Underground

Movie Review

Lethal Weapon 4

The "Lethal Weapon" series has long since achieved the comfortable feel of a Woody Allen movie. Like Allen's immediately recognizable on-screen persona, Martin Riggs (Mel Gibson) and Roger Murtaugh (Danny Glover) have become so familiar as characters and they co-exist so easily in their own buddy cop universe, that even when the script isn't dynamite, they still make it work ... ...

On Facebook

  • Local soldier drowns in Afghanistan

    A soldier from Liberty drowned Wednesday in Kandahar, Afghanistan, while attempting to cross a body of water during combat operations, the defense department announced ...

  • Ky. veteran killed in Afghanistan blast

    FORT THOMAS, Ky. - A Kentucky veteran who was working as a civilian contractor in Afghanistan has died in an explosion in Kabul that killed at least 15 people including six Americans.The father of Michael Robert Bradford, 26, of Fort Thomas and Augusta, Ga., said his son was smart, good in different sports and about to become a father.Gary "Moose" Bradford, also of Fort Thomas, told ...

  • In surprise ceremony Wisconsin Marine reunited with military dog from Afghanistan

    Marine Sgt. Ross Gundlach of Madison, Wis., gets a kiss from Casey, a 4-year-old yellow Labrador that he worked with while deployed in Afghanistan, as the two are reunited during a surprise ceremony, Friday, May 17, 2013, at the Statehouse in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall) DES MOINES, Iowa -- When Marine Sgt. Ross Gundlach served as a dog handler in Afghanistan, he told the ...

  • Car bombing in Kandahar gated community connected to Karzai kills 9

    the Associated Press reported . There were two vehicle IEDs (improvised explosive devices)," Javed Faisal, spokesman for the Kandahar provincial ...

  • US Marines pack up as Taliban wages spring offensive

    Battalion, 8th Marines, patrolled hard in the mountainous, heavily disputed Kajaki Dam area of Helmand province.Between missions, they broke their remote firebase down to the nails and plywood. They were going home. Derstine’s commanders explained that this was not your usual "RIP" or swap-out with a follow-on unit. (In the military RIP stands for "Relief in Place" ...

More Afghanistan Sun news